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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 5. APPEAL AND ERROR · Chapter 3. APPEALS TO SUPERIOR OR STATE COURT · Article 2. PROCEDURE

5-3-25. Appeal by partners or joint contractors; signature on bond; appeal by corporation.

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  1. When several partners or joint contractors bring or defend an action as such, any one of the partners or joint contractors may enter an appeal in the name of the firm or joint contractors and sign the name of the firm or joint contractors to a bond if required by the superior court, which shall be binding on the firm and the joint contractors as though they had signed it themselves. In the case of corporations, the appeal may be entered by the president or any agent thereof managing the case or by the attorney of record.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1838, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 589; Code 1863, § 3538; Code 1868, § 3561; Code 1873, § 3618; Code 1882, § 3618; Civil Code 1895, § 4460; Civil Code 1910, § 5005; Code 1933, § 6-108.

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Text read from t4-6-(v4)-2013-pdf.pdf, Volume V4, 2013 edition, page 198; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 290d3a1d6843.